Does a used Porsche seem like a fair trade for a rare 1555 book about medicine by Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius? No? Well, then, maybe you’re not as committed to tomes dedicated to medical ...

The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles is home to over 250,000 books, but it's most famous for its collection of rare and ...

With a new film adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” now in theaters, interest in Emily Brontë’s iconic novel is once again on the rise. But more than 175 years before the story returned to movie screens ...

UB’s Rare Books Collection has acquired a first edition of Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” one of the most significant works in American literary ...

A Northern California man's elaborate ruse to purloin ancient Chinese manuscripts involved fakery and back-to-back flights to Asia.

Many University students have never set foot in Firestone Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, but if they had, they could have discovered the manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

Watermark West Rare Bookstore owner Phil McComish stands with a map from the 1870s advertising land for sale in Kansas. Watermark West Rare Bookstore has overcome challenges for 40 years, including ...

Here’s a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital. By Sarah Bahr London has a rich literary legacy: Charles Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist” while ...

March marks the last month of Rare Books 101 at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Along with opportunities to view significant historic acclaimed works that are always on display, visitors to ...

Items from the vast personal collection of Stuart and Mimi Rose are on display at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. CONTRIBUTED Wright State grad Tilly Evans-Krueger takes Broadway by ...

A South Delhi antiquarian bookstore, Memoirs of India traces its origins to a rare collection acquired in Kolkata in the late ...